Jetpack 4.1: Secure Sign On Improvements, Two New Sharing Buttons, and More

Jetpack 4.1 is here, and it’s packed with performance improvements, new features, improvements to existing features, and bug fixes!

Performance Enhancements

We’ve improved Jetpack’s performance by making calls to the database more efficient. Essentially, Jetpack is doing less on each page load, making things faster. We’ve also made some changes to Photon and Carousel to load your images faster than ever.

Feature and UI Improvements

Are you familiar with our Secure Sign On module? It allows you to use your WordPress.com log in credentials to register for and sign in to your self-hosted site quickly and securely.

We fully redesigned SSO with improvements that will make it even easier to set up and use on your site. Give it a try by going to Jetpack > Settings in your dashboard, and enabling the SSO module.

Also new in this release are two new Sharing buttons. Now, your readers can share your posts on Telegram and, if they’re using a mobile device, on WhatsApp.

We already concatenate and minify CSS, and we will do the same for JavaScript files soon. It won’t happen in Jetpack 4.2, but we’re already working on having this implemented in Jetpack 4.3. You can follow our progress here:https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/pull/3647

Don’t worry though, Jetpack 4.2 will also come with quite a few performance improvements!

I particularly like the secure sign on update, the page no longer breaks when a login page cosmetic mod plugin is used. Whatsapp button is awesome, and speed… we all have the need! Thanks Jetpack Team!